Hopkins L. Turney

Hopkins Lacy Turney (3 October 1797-1 August 1857) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-TN 5) from 4 March 1837 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding John B. Forester and preceding George W. Jones), and a US Senator from 4 March 1845 to 3 March 1851 (succeeding Ephraim H. Foster and preceding James C. Jones).

Biography
Hopkins Lacy Turney was born in Dixon Springs, Smith County, Tennessee in 1797, and he served in the First Seminole War in 1818 before becoming a lawyer in Jasper and Winchester in his home state. He was first elected to the State House in 1828, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1837 to 1843 and in the US Senate from 1845 to 1851. He died in 1857, and his son Peter Turney would later serve as Governor from 1893 to 1897.